Wednesday, December 31, 2003

Today's thought is:

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
--Faith Baldwin

Each stage of life brings its own gifts. Every age gives us a chance to examine where we are right now. When we were young, many of us insisted that we could change the world. We even thought we could change people. The next stage in life may have given us the gift of seeing that we could only change ourselves.

Whatever stage we are in right now is the perfect place to reassess our priorities again. It has become obvious to us by now which things we cannot change, and we are busily accepting that truth.

Time itself alters us and our expectations. The time we have lived has already created change, and the passing of time will create more. The alterations we make today can help us accept this stage in life as being the best place to be.

Now is the time to alter my expectations of myself, to tailor them to my current needs.

Sometimes it's hard to determine exactly what those needs are. I find that most of my "needs" are actually "wants". The next few days I will be looking long and hard at my life to try to separate the two, and determine a list of goals for the New Year.